In their ‘Batman International’ series, DC gave the Batman of Japan and his sidekick (‘Shy Lolita Canary’, formerly a member of Super Young Team) a transformation system built into their version of the Batcave.

Unless, of course, that’s going to be the “twist,” that TOBY got out there and was hit with the globe and TYLER is back in the clearing. (Leaves you to wonder what happen with Tyler’s helmet, but, such is life.)

Kinda far-fetched, though.
That’d mean Toby, in trying to get the chaos goop away from him, took Tyler’s place to save him from it and thus got “reunited” with it. It also makes one wonder why it hasn’t more “stably” bonded back with him.
It’d also mean that Sarah’s and Lester’s information about Tyler being were he was supposed to be was erroneous and false. And that would make the mysterious yet powerful P&G less awesome.
Lastly, it’d mean the story would need one heckuva flashback or similar to explain how it was done or what actually happened- something not cheap or convoluted or out-of-the-blue.
So, of course, it’s possible. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

I certainly hope so, because the prospect of an underage protagonist winding up in his underwear after having his clothes dissolved by tentacled chaos goop while being handed over as merchandise to characters of unknown alignment would be, well, an unexpected dark turn for this comic …

Not likely since they modified the machine to suck chaos goop and similar off people. It probably doesn’t dress them up anymore- and if it still can and does, it’ll have to be programmed first to put a costume on Tyler. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have the design of Moon Shadow’s costume.

Well, if I were to posit a condition that indeed does get the machine to dress Tyler up as his alter ego, what about a mind-reading interface that takes costume design straight from its user’s thoughts? That makes it easier for metahuman allies of its previous owners to get dressed up. It would also allow for quick and easy costume modification and upgrading.

I am pretty sure that the whole point of the machine was that it dresses buffed-up FISS or similarly invulnerable bricks in skin-tight suits (…like it’s painted on…). Tyler wants strong padding and armor. The machine would probably go “ERROR: Insufficient materials for desired output.”

I have always wondered exactly WHAT the machine Spidey found was SUPPOSED to do? I mean, did someone actually sit there and say; “Hey, Clem. You got the costume design machine over there, what do I do with this homicidal parasite device?”